San Diego - getting there

Getting to San Diego went pretty well. Keegan was wonderful at the airport and loved watching the planes. He had a mini melt down when daddy got on the plane before us to put the carseat in. He didn't want daddy to leave him. Then we were shortly on the plane and they asked Keegan if he wanted to go up and visit the pilot in the cockpit. How cool is that? So Kee and I went up there and they let him look at all the neat buttons and even made some lights flash for him; he even got a pair of wings :-) Keegan didn't know what to say. He just sat there with his mouth hanging open.

The plane ride went well too. He slept for about an hour then spent 40 minutes watching the DVD player. Then he played peek-a-boo with a teenage girl sitting in front of us for 20 minutes. She was bored and thought he was cute; so thank God for bored teenage girls. Then we turned the lights on and off for 10 minutes, read the Hungry Caterpillar I think 10 times. By this time we were sweating it cause we hit turbulence and everyone had to sit down. As Keegan got strapped into his carseat, he looked at me with tears in his eyes and his chin quivering and said "Mama, I am all done. I wanna' go home!" Well that made me feel like a real heel...

When we got there we had to collect luggage; Keegan and I went and checked out some of the local sculpture in the airport while daddy waited. Then we had to take a shuttle to the rental car place. The rental car place was horrible. We waited in line for almost an hour. I stood out with the luggage and Keegan ran back and forth between Lyle and me. All was well until a plane came in to land; the planes come right over the car rental place and were really loud. I thought it was kind of cool; but it scared the stuffing out of Keegan. He wouldn't come outside to stand with me after that; thank goodness Lyle was up to the rental counter by then.

We got to our townhouse without much issue. The townhouse is fine. It's a little noisy cause we are near a major road; but it quieted down around 10pm last night. It has a nice outdoor patio area and a computer which I am currently typing on.

This morning we walked down to the beach/playground. Keegan had a great time swimming and then spent 20 minutes trying to get the sand from the beach back into the ocean. After that we chased pigeons. I kid you not, Keegan was determined to catch a pigeon. This ended when Keegan tripped and scrapped his elbow and said "The birdie run away" in a very dejected tone. Then we met two doggies on a walk with their owner and Keegan played with them for a while. Then on the way back we ran into a lady walking her two greyhounds. So we talked to her for awhile. She commented on how great Keegan was with the the dogs and what a happy boy he is :-)

Then back to the house to pack things up. We drove to Target to get some stuff and then it was over to Sea World for some fun. This Sea World wasn't as big or impressive as the one in Orlando; it had a nice play area for kids though. Keegan got scared in the shark encounters exhibit and then when we went to go into the Sesame Street Live theater he lost his mind. He said "no, no, no, it's dark. I don't wanna' do it." As his protest started to escalate to higher and higher volumes we decided to leave. After all Lyle and I didn't really care about watching Elmo anyway. So it was off to the play area. Keegan really wanted to run through the punching bag maze but he was too short; this resulted in another meltdown (making me wonder where the happy boy from the morning went). So we left and came back to the house. Keegan should be sleeping as I type.

So far so good. The weather is wonderful. It's been cloudy but it was 60oF when we woke up and climbed to around 70oF. Way nicer than the weather we left :-)